Alveraz Ricardez

Hour By Hour
by Lindsey Duncan

Weepers And Ragers
by Aliette de Bodard

Diminished Capacity
by Andrew Zimmerman Jones

And Saturn Below
by Wade Ogletree

Flash

The Road To Heather Cove
By Richard A. Lovett

The Devil You Know
By Heidi Wessman Kneale

Dreams of Sinaloa
by Alveraz Ricardez

The Japanese Businessman
by Kyle Hemmings

An Alien Ate My SF Poem
by Elizabeth Barrette

Partial–birth Revolution
by Kaori Praschak

Vault
by John Fyffe

Pancho' s Email
by Marie Vibbert

Twelve Dancing Daughters
by Pam McNew

Alone No More
by William Trowbridge

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horseback on a clay trail in jalisco
i find two vanilla cream scorpions
one on it's back and one in tears

i ask the sad scorpion if he knows
the way back to colima

his sun cracked voice
whispers between spittled sand
'save me from being without my isabella'

our eyes meet at her waist
the wake of his affair

inside this familiar resolve
between chapped lips
i find the quiet and swallow

his eyes roll back and his arms
lift with the rise of my boot

i scoop the dead lovers into my palm
and bury them on the side of the
clay trail in jalisco

Alveraz Ricardez has two published volumes of poetry, Hot Mud Poems and The Pill Bug Torero. He is the editor of Kill Poet Press & Journal and works as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He lives with his wife and two children. He also raises emu on his ranch in southern Chile. Alveraz has been published in Chronogram, Arabesque, Pemmican, MiPoesias, Softblow, Language and Culture, AVQ, and numerous other magazines and journals.